Specify which team members need to approve a post before going live
When collaborating in a FeedHive workspace, you have the ability to enable an approval workflow.
In short, this means that given team members must approve a post before it can go live.
In this article, we will take a look at how FeedHive's approval workflow works, and how to set it up.
The first thing you need to do, is to enable the approval workflow for a given workspace.
We do this on the Settings page.
After the approval workflow has been activated, you can now grant individual team members the ability to approve posts.
On the Teams page, you will see a new column, "Can approve", which you can use to grant team members the ability to approve.
The following rules apply:
Creating and scheduling a post will feel the same as normally.
The difference is, that as soon you click either schedule or plan, the post automatically enters a state of needing approval.
From here, a team member with the ability to approve posts will need to approve them before the post can go live.
There are multiple ways a post can be approved.
Go to the Schedule page and see the posts on the calendar.
You will notice the post appearing with a purple border, if they need approval.
If you click on the post, you will also see that is says *"**Needs approval"***in the top, and if you have been granted the ability to approve, you will notice a green Approve button.
Click this button, and you will see the post turning into a regular scheduled post.
The post has been approved 🥳
Go to the Posts page and click on the Needs approval tab.
From here, you have multiple options.
The latter will allow you to approve posts in bulk.
Finally, you can also click Edit on a post that needs approval, you will have the ability to approve the post from the Compose page as well.